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Manilla Presbyterian Church
The architect of this small parish church at Manilla embraced plywood and exploited its natural finish and structural capacity as a shear skin in the elements of roof design.
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Carlton Clydesdale Pavilion, Sydney Showground, NSW
The design of this pavilion, with its large recycled columns and bearers, deliberately reconstructs the heavy timber forms of industrial structures built in Australia from the early 1800’s till Federation.
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Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village, Fraser Island, Queensland
The design of the Kingfisher Bay Resort and Village was underpinned by the architects' desire to achieve the most ecologically and environmentally responsible development within the financial constraints. They sought to touch the ground lightly
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Hardware store, Tullamarine, Victoria
This complex consciously displays a diversity of different timber based products, structural forms and jointing techniques. Solid timber is used in bolted columns, framing and trusses and plywood in diaphragms, shear walls and external cladding.
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John XXIII College Chapel, Mt. Claremont, WA
The John XXIII Chapel continued the long tradition of timber construction in Australian ecclesiastical building.
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Drying shelter, Narangba, Queensland
The building is a simple gabled roof shelter with CCA treated slash pine poles cantilevered out of the ground to support a roof of longitudinal plywood box beams and transverse glue laminated pine trusses
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Board shed, Tuan, Queensland
Modules of nail plated hardwood trusses, simply supported on cantilevered CCA treated poles, roof this large industrial store building. The design was driven by economy but returns nail plate technology to its original market: large scale industrial roof construction.
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Community and Worship Centre - Menai
The congregation of this church had definite ideas of the operation of the building and the configuration for the worship space. As well as making structural sense, the "spider web" of black steel tension ties over the centre of the congregation allows the inclined radiating timber members to define a secondary focus over the congregation.
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University Clubhouse
The brief for the Sunshine Coast University Club required a building that could provide varied functions and could also be expanded in the future. A tight budget + short building program resulted in much of structure being prefabricated and the use of steel being minimised.
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Wapping Housing Project
MRTFC: Multi Residential Timber Framed Construction
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